What the heck happend to the EXCLUSIVE setting in Outlook - I'm getting Russian **** in my inbox!

Anonymous
2020-01-17T18:25:09+00:00

Just started getting Russian women and male body part emails in my inbox.  I used to have exclusive setting checked.  Where in the heck did that go???  I see that in 2013 lots of people had issues with unwanted spam in their inboxes.  They were told to set exclusive settting.  I really wish Microsoft would quit pushing me to go to gmail!

* Original title: What the heck happend to the EXCLUSIVE setting in Outlook - I'm getting Russian cr** in my inbox!

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  1. Diane Poremsky MVP 17,526 Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2020-01-21T17:44:40+00:00

    It was not a hacker. It s a feature from Microsoft - the process runs after junk filtering, but because the junk landed in the inbox, any mail with unsub links in it was added to the list. 

    DO NOT attempt to unsubscribe. Ignore the list.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-01-21T17:27:59+00:00

    Holy cow! You are correct!

    I just took a look and saw an entry for the bgreatconsulting.com spam.

    Though I'd like to know if that was an effect AFTER the filter bypass failure.

    Because I know I NEVER put ANY entry in subscriptions, yet there are some for valid companies.

    And for anyone else thinking of doing it, do NOT click on unsubscribe for the spam stuff.

    You'll likely open up a whole can of worms by doing so, depending on how Microsoft implements the "unsubscribe" and how the spammer implemented it as well.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-01-21T17:01:29+00:00

    There is a thread on here about the "subscriptions" section of your email. So I went and looked at my "subscriptions" and low and behold yep. Some hacker has added a bunch of malicious subscriptions that I did not sign up for and I cant remove it. 

    Go check your subscriptions on your email. Under settings. I bet you have the same issue. All of us do I bet.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-01-21T16:58:14+00:00

    So ironic, right.  They are even blocking their own traffic.

    Marshalls is in my safe senders, but every item I receive now goes into junk mail.  It is like they said *** it, let just send it all to spam.

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-01-21T16:52:11+00:00

    My issue seems to have swung to the other side now.  I get 40-50 of my emails within the hour going to SPAM, even those that I have in my safe sender list.  So first, nothing was going to spam and now everything is.  Both are similarly painful.  Can we just fix it without the extremes?  For heaven's sake, they send my USPS notifications to junk mail. My alarm alerts are going to junk mail, and every other site I am on.   grrrr

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